Setting Data Souce dynamically in Crystal Enterprise

A friend of mine sent me this:
"Got a question for you. I'm working with a vendor who is trying to deploy Crystal Reports in an Enterprise environment. Can you tell me how to change the data source name dynamically for a RPT file? They are telling me that the DNS name has to be in the RPT file and therefore changed manually for each environment. This doesn't sound right to me."
Doesn't sound right to me either.
Is there any reason why the data source can't be passed in code here ?
I've changed the data source before in code and passed it to the report using VB.
I mean, I'm not working in the Enterprise environment much, so I'm not sure.
Is it any different ? How would I do it ?
Thanks,
The Panda

Enterprise has the ability to enter logon info and change the database info when scheduling and using the report. Local Administrator should know how to do this.

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